Agent skill

Bioconductor Mastr

by bioMate-AI in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb

mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedResearch & Science

Install Bioconductor Mastr

skills CLI
$ npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-mastr -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb bioconductor-mastr --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/transcriptomics/mastr .claude/skills/bioconductor-mastr && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bioconductor-mastr
GitHub stars
804
Token cost
~1.6k tokens
SKILL.md length
499 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
112
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions.

  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics
  • SKILL.md covers Workflows, When to Use, When NOT to Use and Data Requirements, plus 6 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
  • Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation

What it does

Bioconductor Mastr is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions. The package is developed for generating refined lists of signature genes from multiple group comparisons based on the results from edgeR and limma differential expression (DE) analysis workflow. It also takes into account the background noise of tissue-specificity, which is often ignored by other marker generation tools. This package is particularly useful for the identification of g

Its SKILL.md is about 1.6k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Research & Science, covering Bioinformatics and Hypothesis generation. The repository describes itself as: BioMate-KB Bioconductor Skills — 200 packages (top 100 by downloads + 100 rising stars) as vignette-grounded Claude/agent skills, with per-package workflow recipes.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Bioinformatics
  • Tasks that involve Hypothesis generation

Example prompts

  • “/bioconductor-mastr”

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit c9bd4d8. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are r).

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    Links to these hosts (documentation or services it may open):

    • bioconductor.org

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bioconductor Mastr loads about 1.6k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 130 tokens; SKILL.md has 499 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~130
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.6k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 499 words (~1,553 tokens).

“Generate and refine a group-specific gene signature from a single transcriptomics dataset, including background tissue expression removal and visualization.”

— opening of SKILL.md by bioMate-AI, Custom licence
name
bioconductor-mastr
when_to_use
Use when: mastR_Demo with mastR; Differential expression analysis (mastR). Not for: Requires R ≥ 4.3.0
user-invocable
false

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/transcriptomics/mastr of bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit c9bd4d8

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Questions about Bioconductor Mastr

What does Bioconductor Mastr do?

mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions. Bioconductor Mastr is an agent skill from bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb. mastR is an R package designed for automated screening of signatures of interest for specific research questions.

When should I use Bioconductor Mastr?

Bioconductor Mastr fits situations like: tasks that involve Bioinformatics; tasks that involve Hypothesis generation.

How do I install Bioconductor Mastr in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-mastr -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/mastr in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .claude/skills/bioconductor-mastr in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bioconductor Mastr in Codex?

Run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-mastr -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/transcriptomics/mastr in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb) into .agents/skills/bioconductor-mastr in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bioconductor Mastr in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb --skill bioconductor-mastr -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bioconductor-mastr, .gemini/skills/bioconductor-mastr, .github/skills/bioconductor-mastr and .opencode/skills/bioconductor-mastr in your project.

What does Bioconductor Mastr need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Bioconductor Mastr is instructions for the agent only.

Does Bioconductor Mastr access the network?

SKILL.md names 1 domain. As links in the text: bioconductor.org. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bioconductor Mastr safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bioconductor Mastr use?

Bioconductor Mastr has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Bioconductor Mastr use?

About 1.6k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 6.2k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bioconductor Mastr?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bioconductor Mastr: Metabolic Study Planner (aiming-lab/AutoResearchClaw, 15k stars), Bulk Omics Integrative Planner (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars), Single Cell Research Planner (aipoch/medical-research-skills, 1.9k stars) and Hypothesis Generation (spacering-net/codeg, 3.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bioconductor Mastr?

bioMate-AI (a GitHub organization) maintains it in bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb, which has 804 GitHub stars. The repository holds 112 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on June 20, 2026.

Source: bioMate-AI/biomate-bioconductor-kb on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.